Layout: 7 lines Script: Maghribi script. Decoration: Elaborate geometrical decoration in blue, red, and yellow ink on first three pages, decoration framing text on second and third pages. Section headings decorated in red, blue, and yellow ink, with scrollwork borders and ornaments. Decoration: headlines in red and blue, and within a triple-ruled frame of blue and red ink. Binding: burgundy imitation leather, renewed endpapers. Textblock with water staining to upper margin. A few marginal annotations; final leaf with notes in other hands on recto and verso. Provenance: Purchased from Heritage Auctions on the William Edward Archer Fund, May 2015. Text from the genre of madḥ (praise) and salawat (abundant prayers) that Muslims frequently send upon the Prophet Muhammad.
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